On this day
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LEAD: A once-ornate ceiling in a once-elegant Upper West Side hotel cracked and sent 4,000 pounds of plaster and concrete crashing down in a croissant shop there yesterday, killing one customer at the counter and injuring 16 other people in the store.
LEAD: A long-smoldering dispute over the safety of fluoridating public water supplies has flared anew, forcing the nation's top health officials to reevaluate the risks and benefits of using fluorides to reduce tooth decay.
LEAD: A new and contentious phase has opened in the struggle over the future of the millions of acres of marshes, swamps, bogs, prairie potholes and bottom lands that not only provide an irreplaceable habitat for wildlife but also help replenish the nation's water supplies and control its floods.
LEAD: Responding to a growing democracy movement, Mongolia's Communist leaders proposed giving up their monopoly on power and held out the prospect of free elections.
LEAD: Backing away from an earlier threat, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua assured Vice President Dan Quayle today that he would surrender control of the military and the security police to the new Nicaraguan government next month.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 7, 1990, covering March 13, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
The B-52s
Milli Vanilli
1990Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer[†]
Anicet Abel Andrianantenaina is a Malagasy professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Israeli Premier League club Maccabi Bnei Reineh and captains the Madagascar national team.
1990Marcell Dareus, American football player[†]
Marcell Dareus is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was named defensive MVP of the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. Dareus was selected by the Buffalo Bills third overall in the 2011 NFL draft. He also played for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
1990Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (born 1903)[†]
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work focused on the education of emotionally disturbed children, as well as Freudian psychology more generally. In the U.S., he later gained a position as professor at the University of Chicago and director of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School for Disturbed Children, and after 1973 taught at Stanford University.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]